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03-31-2014, 09:42 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Sep 2009
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Fantasy just isn't everyone's bag. I find gothic novels on the whole dreadfully dull (although I love Victorian novels with gothic elements). A friend of mine loves the gothic genre but can't get into fantasy at all. We both love lots of other books/literature, though.
As Tolkien said, "Many people who have read [LOTR], or at least reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, [another pejorative adjective?] or contemptible, and I have little cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their work, or of the kinds of writing they evidently prefer. But even from the point of view of those who like the work, there is much that fails to please." Approximate quotation only. I think it's in the Foreword to LOTR.
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04-04-2014, 04:13 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: The best seat in the Golden Perch
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I wonder has the girl in the OP read Wheel of Time? 
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04-04-2014, 07:19 PM
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Loremaster of Annúminas
Join Date: Oct 2006
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